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romney on the issue? >> the next day romney hastily called a press conference. >> i am not here to run for cardinal. and i'm not getting into discussions on the church's doctrines. all that does in my view is play into religious bigotry. >> the irony, of course, the kennedys doing this, given what john kennedy had gone through. his father, george romney, was unable to stay quiet. dove into a gaggle of reporters and angrily attacked kennedy for making romney's faith a campaign issue. it was at the same press conference, and he dominated it. watch. >> i think it's absolutely wrong to keep hammering on the religious issue. i think he's talking about something he has no right to bring into a political campaign. >> well, romney's faith was off limits. kennedy's campaign zeroed in on a strategy to make romney unacceptable to voters and working women. for months the kennedy campaign was sifting through mitt romney's background and hit on an office supply company, which just fired workers from a paper factory in
romney on the issue? >> the next day romney hastily called a press conference. >> i am not here to run for cardinal. and i'm not getting into discussions on the church's doctrines. all that does in my view is play into religious bigotry. >> the irony, of course, the kennedys doing this, given what john kennedy had gone through. his father, george romney, was unable to stay quiet. dove into a gaggle of reporters and angrily attacked kennedy for making romney's faith a campaign...
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. >>> can mitt romney catch a break? just days after enduring a political storm caused by congressman todd akin and his rape comments, the governor now has to weather an actual storm on what is the most important week of the campaign for him today. his job to refocus the conversation on the debt and the economy and he's now got less time to do it. >>> then there's isaac. it's barreling towards new orleans. expected to gain hurricane strength later today. if it hits there wednesday, it would be on this seven-year anniversary of katrina. a stark reminder of what's at stake. >>> good morning from the howl at the moon bar in a rainy, tampa, florida. it is monday, august 27, 2012. this is a special edition of "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. oklahoma governor mary fallon, senator ron johnson of wisconsin, congressman aaron shock of illinois, republican consultant mike murphy will be here. i got a lot in less than an hour so let's get right to my first reads of the morning. >>> mitt romney begins the most important week of
. >>> can mitt romney catch a break? just days after enduring a political storm caused by congressman todd akin and his rape comments, the governor now has to weather an actual storm on what is the most important week of the campaign for him today. his job to refocus the conversation on the debt and the economy and he's now got less time to do it. >>> then there's isaac. it's barreling towards new orleans. expected to gain hurricane strength later today. if it hits there...
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obama campaign manager jim mussina made this offer to the romney campaign -- if mitt romney releases five years of his tax returns, including 2010 and 2011 which he's promised he will produce, the obama camp will drop talking about the need for any more tax returns. they won't mention that. it's worth noting that the offer didn't necessarily include that, hey, we were not going to krit seek what might be in those tax returns but they said we're not going to bring that up as an issue. but this morning -- actually just about ten minutes ago, the romney campaign responded and said, essentially, no deal. if the obama campaign wants to talk about mitt romney's tax returns, the romney camp is going to talk about more substantial issues. >> this may be all spin, but is this a legitimate proposal? i always say any time they send something publicly, we always know the other side will reject it within five minutes. is it okay to say five years and we won't talk about it anymore? >> this was just a way to be able to advance this tax story and extra day. it was smart gamesmanship. but something
obama campaign manager jim mussina made this offer to the romney campaign -- if mitt romney releases five years of his tax returns, including 2010 and 2011 which he's promised he will produce, the obama camp will drop talking about the need for any more tax returns. they won't mention that. it's worth noting that the offer didn't necessarily include that, hey, we were not going to krit seek what might be in those tax returns but they said we're not going to bring that up as an issue. but this...
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story, who is mitt romney? a good, decent man that built something from nothing, that gave away his father's inheritan inheritance, saved the olympics, good governor. that store very a story of success that we, in the republican party, are gonna celebrate. we are gonna celebrate the american dream and success. we are not going gonna be on defense on success and i think that that is something that you are going to see at the convention. the mitt romney story and the american dream. >> okay. i want to ask but a comment you made on "meet the press" on sunday when we were talking about this issue of medicare and this fight over whose cutting medicare around you said the person that has blood on his hands on medicare is president obama. i ask you about that because in paul ryan's budget, those cuts would stay. is that fair? what part of build a on the president's hands do you mean here? >> well what i'm talking about is the fact that the president, the president in his budget, which by the way, not in his budget, in
story, who is mitt romney? a good, decent man that built something from nothing, that gave away his father's inheritan inheritance, saved the olympics, good governor. that store very a story of success that we, in the republican party, are gonna celebrate. we are gonna celebrate the american dream and success. we are not going gonna be on defense on success and i think that that is something that you are going to see at the convention. the mitt romney story and the american dream. >>...
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was a bad day for the romney campaign. wlfs the last time they talked about it. >> they're talking about welfare, adssh -- >> it's not the obama brand of 2008, i agree, but again he has just tactically speaking, i'm not saying i agree with it, but he had more room, and he knows he can't run on the public satisfaction with the country. >> i don't agree with that. >> he has to make romney unacceptable, because he knows romney will not fall on his face. you've got to drive him as bad as you can. >> speaking of bounces, will he get a vp bounce? we'll talk about that after the break. how many votes separated the winner and loser in the closest election in u.s. senate history. the answer that probably something only karla would have gotten right. it was 1974. louis wyman faced off again john durkin. wyman was declared the winner bus the margin of two votes. the senate deadlocked, durkin and wyman agreed to a new election and durkin won by a landslide. the political trivia question you think should be on the show, e-mail us. we'l
was a bad day for the romney campaign. wlfs the last time they talked about it. >> they're talking about welfare, adssh -- >> it's not the obama brand of 2008, i agree, but again he has just tactically speaking, i'm not saying i agree with it, but he had more room, and he knows he can't run on the public satisfaction with the country. >> i don't agree with that. >> he has to make romney unacceptable, because he knows romney will not fall on his face. you've got to drive...
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mitt romney hitting the road. less than 12 hours after officially accepting the party's nomination and spending general election money, he will travel to see hurricane isaac damage firsthand following a rally set in lakeland, florida n , in 30 minutes. pete alexander will be traveling, and so, there is a new plane and tell me about the decision to go to new orleans. >> good question and we will focus on both of those. and looking at the new plane, we are having a chance to see the new plane of mitt romney and the running mate paul ryan there in the distance as they rally up the troops here in advance of what they are calling a farewell victory rally and it reads that the theme through the next two months, believe in america, and there is another one not too far away that paul ryan will be hopping on and the decision to go the louisiana and specifically the new orleans area, chuck, is one that the campaign had been considering over the last several days to try to find an appropriate time to do it. they say they wer
mitt romney hitting the road. less than 12 hours after officially accepting the party's nomination and spending general election money, he will travel to see hurricane isaac damage firsthand following a rally set in lakeland, florida n , in 30 minutes. pete alexander will be traveling, and so, there is a new plane and tell me about the decision to go to new orleans. >> good question and we will focus on both of those. and looking at the new plane, we are having a chance to see the new...
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romney trams obama 54% to 31% likability. the number we'll be look at is can romney close this gap? monday night's program with the we can do better theme will be capped with a speech from ann romney and that's one opportunity to close that gap. >>> and is romney ready for the hard sell. when as "the wall street journal" writes, romney won't use his campaign to personalize me as a piece of meat. >>> the romney campaign is having a hard time keeping the focus on the economy, there remains the biggest issue of the campaign. joining me now are two people who are focused on the economy, former democratic senator from alan arkir arkansas, blanch lincoln. i'll go to you, it seems that every time mitt romney is trying to get on the economy, it plays right into the president's hand and the president's hand these moments i'm going to target talking to latinos, i'm going to target talking to women. we have 74 -- >> i think if romney has been thrown off because of these sort of external messages that have gotten his way, the president's kind of been thrown off by some of the economic data we h
romney trams obama 54% to 31% likability. the number we'll be look at is can romney close this gap? monday night's program with the we can do better theme will be capped with a speech from ann romney and that's one opportunity to close that gap. >>> and is romney ready for the hard sell. when as "the wall street journal" writes, romney won't use his campaign to personalize me as a piece of meat. >>> the romney campaign is having a hard time keeping the focus on the...
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and mitt romney's schedule more interviews with local affiliates for mitt romney. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] if you stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts, you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® liquid gels. nothing starts working faster than zyrtec® at relieving your allergy symptoms for 24 hours. zyrtec®. love the air. anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yeah. one phillips' colon health probiotic...
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mitt romney never will be. and if they can try to convince people in this country that the president is giving away government benefits to people that now don't have to work, i'm sure they're happy to have that message sink in. it is, again, 100% not true. nobody that's looked at this believes it's true. there is a strong, vibrant work requirement in welfare and, quite frankly, there should be. >> are you losing the medicare argument? >> no, i don't think so. this is a debate that we're going to have for the remainder of this campaign. look, it's a pretty good example. your last guest who is in florida. i don't know if you were worried he was somehow going to back up right off the stage here when he was talking about medicare. the guy running for the u.s. senate in florida understood that the ryan budget was simply too far to go on medicare for seniors and for people that are going to be seniors right here in this state of florida. people know that what they're going to -- >> these early ads, have they been muc
mitt romney never will be. and if they can try to convince people in this country that the president is giving away government benefits to people that now don't have to work, i'm sure they're happy to have that message sink in. it is, again, 100% not true. nobody that's looked at this believes it's true. there is a strong, vibrant work requirement in welfare and, quite frankly, there should be. >> are you losing the medicare argument? >> no, i don't think so. this is a debate that...
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wisconsin, romney, a little bit. ohio, obama still on top of romney. why after two months, these la two months, that were high-octane, especially after the paul ryan aspect, is there no change? this is trench warfare. >> well, one thing is that the romney people have probably pointed out they've got a little bit of a bump in states like wisconsin and florida after the paul ryan announcement in the battleground states, including that "new york times"/cbs quinnipiac poll does show that. but overall, things have been locked in. actually, luke, you go back to april, the same situation has been pretty much the same. there's not going to be a whole lot of movement. not a lot of movement in april. not a lot of movement. may not be a lot of movement after the debates. we'll be locked in this trench warfare, in a race that president obama could win and also mitt romney could win. >> president obama touching on a democrat that remains quite popular throughout the country. bill clinton unleashed this new ad. let's take a listen. >> this election, to me, is about
wisconsin, romney, a little bit. ohio, obama still on top of romney. why after two months, these la two months, that were high-octane, especially after the paul ryan aspect, is there no change? this is trench warfare. >> well, one thing is that the romney people have probably pointed out they've got a little bit of a bump in states like wisconsin and florida after the paul ryan announcement in the battleground states, including that "new york times"/cbs quinnipiac poll does show...
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romney press sect andrew saul said this govern romney and dongman ryan disagree with mr. akin's statement and a romney/ryan administration would not, oppose abortionings in instances of rape. >> dennis rehber, i find his remarks to be offensive and reprehensible. there is no such thing as a legitimate rape. congressman jeff flake tweeted this, i oppose abortion but exceptions must be made for cases of rain, incest, and to protect the life of the mother. congress's ache kin's comment was wrong. stair ral steelman piled on tweeting the remarks about legitimate rape why inexcusable, insulting and embarrassing to the gop. the race is now far from a sure thing. this morning, mccaskill previewed what we'll hear from her as long as akin remains in the race. >> i know there's a lot of chatter nationwide about what congressman akin said. i know you all are talking about this in the context of the presidential, but for the state i love, i hope this is a moment where everyone who hasn't been paying close attention, this statement is kind of a window into todd akin's mind. >> and whi
romney press sect andrew saul said this govern romney and dongman ryan disagree with mr. akin's statement and a romney/ryan administration would not, oppose abortionings in instances of rape. >> dennis rehber, i find his remarks to be offensive and reprehensible. there is no such thing as a legitimate rape. congressman jeff flake tweeted this, i oppose abortion but exceptions must be made for cases of rain, incest, and to protect the life of the mother. congress's ache kin's comment was...
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romney is in iowa. vice president biden campaigns in detroit and paul ryan hits virginia and north carolina. ryan seems to be enjoying his traditional running mate role of attack dog. check out the jab at the president when he was in pennsylvania on tuesday. >> hey, i am a catholic deer hunter. i'm happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. >> and then there was this more serious assertion last night. >> i've had to vote to send men and women to war on more than one occasion. i've been to those funerals. i've talked to widows and parents. i've gone to afghanistan and iraq to meet with our troops to learn from them. obviously i have a lot more experience than barack obama did when he became president. >> interesting assertion there. for his part vice president biden did little to define the rhetoric and tone of the campaign with this in minnesota. >> over the objections with a squealing pitch, over the objections of romney in all his allies, we passed some of the toughest wall street regulations in
romney is in iowa. vice president biden campaigns in detroit and paul ryan hits virginia and north carolina. ryan seems to be enjoying his traditional running mate role of attack dog. check out the jab at the president when he was in pennsylvania on tuesday. >> hey, i am a catholic deer hunter. i'm happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. >> and then there was this more serious assertion last night. >> i've had to vote to send men and women to war on more than one...
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>> i joined the romney ticket. and what mitt romney is proposing to do is repeal all of obama care. >> one of ryan's strengths was supposed to be that he wasn't perceived as a typical politicians, he's known for standi ing up for his beliefs a his plans, when it comes to hard questions on tax reform, he sounded like a typical politician. >> will we soon see a plan that's specific about which loopholes to close? >> that is something we think we need to do in the light of day and the house and congress to pass a project for tax reform. we want to get feedback from americans about what priorities in the tax code we should keep and which ones we should get rid of. >> light of day, which means after election day. that's a split particularly on medicare. finally, if it's wednesday, we have election results. how does an establishment member who has a high -- get to the republican primary? when you have three challengers splitting the votes against him. tommy thompson won the senate primary in wisconsin with a meager 44% o
>> i joined the romney ticket. and what mitt romney is proposing to do is repeal all of obama care. >> one of ryan's strengths was supposed to be that he wasn't perceived as a typical politicians, he's known for standi ing up for his beliefs a his plans, when it comes to hard questions on tax reform, he sounded like a typical politician. >> will we soon see a plan that's specific about which loopholes to close? >> that is something we think we need to do in the light of...
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would it have been better for romney if the night had ended with ann romney's speech? >>> and then, of course, there's isaac, the hurricane, dumps gushing rain overtopping levees, but not breaking them, as emergency evacuations are ordered in a parish south of new orleans. we're live on the gulf coast this morning. good morning from tampa, florida. site of the republican national convention. it's wednesday, august 29th, 2012. this is "the daily rundown" , i'm chuck todd, another busy hour ahead. tom brokaw, roy blunt, bob mcdonnell from team obama, stephanie cutter and a great round table. michael steele, susan law, steven page. let's get down to the first reads of the morning. tonight, paul ryan will accept the vice presidential nomination in the biggest speech of his political career to date. the big night follows a program last night that was like a peanut butter and egg sandwich. two great tastes that maybe don't taste great together. two prime time speeches accomplished what they set out to do. but in making the soft sell and the hard sell on the same night, did t
would it have been better for romney if the night had ended with ann romney's speech? >>> and then, of course, there's isaac, the hurricane, dumps gushing rain overtopping levees, but not breaking them, as emergency evacuations are ordered in a parish south of new orleans. we're live on the gulf coast this morning. good morning from tampa, florida. site of the republican national convention. it's wednesday, august 29th, 2012. this is "the daily rundown" , i'm chuck todd,...
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one thing that's clear, after the first 48 hours of romney ryan, mitt romney is acting like a new candidate. >> i guess you think i made the right decision, the right choice? people ask me why i chose paul ryan. the answer is i wanted someone who was a leader. >> paul ryan has given the republican ticket and romney himself a boost of energy and it's not just evident in the largest rallies we've seen. finally looks like he's enjoying being a candidate again. here's how he confidently took on a heckler in wisconsin last night. >> you see, young man, this group here is respectful of other people's rights to be heard. >> and clearly, ryan himself is enjoying and he enjoyed that warm reception back home in wisconsin. >> my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and a little spot of some miller. >> now, of course, romney is hardly the first presidential candidate to try to use a vp pick to relaunch his campaign. walter mondale, bob dole, al gore, john mccain tried to shake things up. all lost any way. the question is, whether the ryan pick will be more than a short-term boost. will romney's relaunch do
one thing that's clear, after the first 48 hours of romney ryan, mitt romney is acting like a new candidate. >> i guess you think i made the right decision, the right choice? people ask me why i chose paul ryan. the answer is i wanted someone who was a leader. >> paul ryan has given the republican ticket and romney himself a boost of energy and it's not just evident in the largest rallies we've seen. finally looks like he's enjoying being a candidate again. here's how he confidently...
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what do these numbers mean for romn romney? as he sets off on a four-day bus tour starting tomorrow, they raised the stakes for the vp pick and convention. we said it's important for romney to make a move in august. that's even truer now that it's august 10th. it's been a bare-knuckle campaign. while condemning the negativity and the dire warnings of shower of attack ads, here's the president yesterday in colorado. >> we've got less than three months left in this election. less than three months. you will see more negative ads, more money spent than you've ever seen in your life. >> the campaigns and especially the super-pacs are hammering a week this weeks one stepped over the line that complies a woman's death from cancer could have been prevented in bain capital had not shut down the steel plant where her husband worked. >> that's when they found the cancer. by then it was stage 4. there was nothing they could do for her. and she passed away in 22 days. i do not think mitt romney realize what he has done to anyone. furthermo
what do these numbers mean for romn romney? as he sets off on a four-day bus tour starting tomorrow, they raised the stakes for the vp pick and convention. we said it's important for romney to make a move in august. that's even truer now that it's august 10th. it's been a bare-knuckle campaign. while condemning the negativity and the dire warnings of shower of attack ads, here's the president yesterday in colorado. >> we've got less than three months left in this election. less than three...
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you can't see mitt romney in there. all you see is the republican party. >> he's a generic r. >> exactly. part of what tonight is about is asserting leadership over the party. it is striking. we have been talking about the yufl energy of the party. the physical conservativism that paul ryan represents. >> diverse leadership wise. they have an issue of the support groups but visually a diverse group. >> he has to connect to it and be the leader of it who can translate that into actual governing. that's much more about the poetry and above all else i say coming into the convention it's all about biography. that's what he's got to emphasize tonight. >> quickly, paul ryan, he accomplished the goals of the campaign. >> it's firing up the hall. that was a speech for the base of the -- >> not the swing voters. >> not in message but to the extent he's seen as a serious guy who wants to solve some big problem that's a down payment on reaching independent voter. >> david gregory, see you tonight. thank you, sir. we are just getti
you can't see mitt romney in there. all you see is the republican party. >> he's a generic r. >> exactly. part of what tonight is about is asserting leadership over the party. it is striking. we have been talking about the yufl energy of the party. the physical conservativism that paul ryan represents. >> diverse leadership wise. they have an issue of the support groups but visually a diverse group. >> he has to connect to it and be the leader of it who can translate...
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tonight mitt romney will give
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